Break the Customer Churn Cycle and Grow Your Professional Services Company
We wanted to understand the challenges professional services teams face around work management, so we surveyed over 1,000 adults who work for an agency, consulting firm, or provide billable services to external clients.
Wrike Opens Doors in La Jolla, Creates 150 Jobs for San Diego
It’s a great time to be a San Diegan! Last week, Wrike officially opened an office in La Jolla and announced plans to create 150 jobs in San Diego over the next three years. San Diego Mayor Kevin L. Faulconer and Regional EDC Senior Vice President Sean Barr joined our San Diego team for a
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Wrike and Crescent Sock Company
Learn how Wrike helped Crescent Sock Company double their efficiency by replacing as many as five other apps that they previously used for project management. CustomerCrescent Sock Company is the oldest operating hosiery mill in the United States with over a century of expertise in knitting socks. It’s a family-owned business, and some of its employees
Growing Pains: How Do You Manage a Team That Keeps Growing?
With your company expanding at a rapid pace, you can no longer employ the same management tactics you used when your entire team could share a single pizza. Here are 5 tips to effectively lead and manage a growing team — without the stress, drama, or chaos.
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Level 5 Leadership with Project Management 2.0
In my last post, I raised the question of how a new type of leader that emerges with the development of collective intelligence looks like and what his/her role is. We concluded that Project 2.0 leader’s role is to motivate his/her team and make the team members more productive, in order to complete the project
Improvements in the Daily To-do Emails
We received a lot of customer feedback about desired changes in everyday to-do e-mails, and today we are glad to present the improvements to you. To help you focus on the most important tasks for you, now tasks that are overdue by more than 5 days are not shown in your daily to-do emails (1). If
6 Strategies for Dealing with a Toxic Work Environment
Constantly chewing on Tums to get through a bad day at the office? Sounds like you may be dealing with a toxic work environment. All joking aside, negativity at work can have serious consequences for your health and personal life. If you think that you're dealing with a toxic environment, you need to come up with
Wrike Joins the Top 25 Great Places To Work
Ping-pong tables are great, and snacks are nice to have. Competitive salaries and comprehensive benefits packages are wonderful. But what really makes a workplace great? There’s no one tried and true recipe, but there are a few commonalities that great places to work share. One is a mission you can get behind. Another is being surrounded
Looking forward to MLab Roundtable on Evolution of Management Innovation
. Today the discipline of management is pressed by numerous factors, like globalization and shortening strategic lifecycles. Management is developing and embracing the benefits of openness, emergence, adaptability, and many other principles countering those of the management status quo (e.g., hierarchies, command control, bureaucracy) that companies have institutionalized over the past century. Organizations like Management Innovation
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Wrike's Founder Contributes to Creating "Tomorrow's Best Practices Today"
Andrew McAfee - HBS Professor, Enterprise 2.0 Thought Leader Gary Hamel - author of "Future of Management," "Competing for the Future" and many other books and articles Lenny Mendonca - Co-leader of McKinsey's Strategy Practice The participants will discuss the management innovation evolution and the challenges of changing the existing
First-hand Experience To Succeed with a Distributed Team
This is exactly the case of Avi Cohen, CEO of Pacific54, who successfully manages the five offices of his company, spread around Latin America, the Middle East, Europe and the U.S. "We run multiple projects on online marketing strategies, and the main challenge for us was establishing a healthy workflow for all of them," Avi says.
What Can We Learn from Project Failure? 5 Lessons from Project Management Experts
When you run a project, there are a lot of components that need to be managed together: information, people, time, as well as specific challenges and threats. Speaking of threats – even if you’re a seasoned professional with extensive experience, you’re never immune to the smaller or bigger dangers of project failure. If you browse
10 Encouraging Productivity Proverbs for Your Office Wall (Part 1)
"A proverb a day keeps distractions at bay" ... Okay, you caught us. That's not a real proverb. We just made it up, but it's true nonetheless. We collected 10 well-known proverbs about productivity and backed up their claims with insider business tips and facts to encourage you on those difficult work days. Today, we'll